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If you, like me, have wondered about the increasing numbers of ambulance chasing lawyer billboards around Philadelphia and other parts of the country, here's an exploration. I still remember those in the Bay Area with Anh Phoong, the lawyer with toned arms. www.phillymag.com/news/2025/02...

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The 21st of February 1970, Dhaka, then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. The dawn march to the central memorial to the martyrs of the movement for Bengali language rights, 1952. We came from Notre Dame College. 1970 was the year I became an adult. In tense waters, rougher in 1971 when war broke out.

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ঠাট্টা করা বড়ই অভদ্রতা -- what moral lessons did you learn with your alphabet acquisition? We learned the Bangla alphabet through the Adorsho Lipi primer. At the very core of that instruction was the imparting of moral lessons. Is this why elders discouraged us from reading 'out books'?

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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

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It is exciting news that Tilted Axis is expanding to the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...

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"What a far cry from the days of Democrat corruption. It’s like we were living in darkness, only to emerge into this bright and blinding light where we literally refuse to see what’s in front of our eyes."

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Only someone without any experience or empathy with people who have suffered dislocation and forced migration can glibly say, the 20th c saw so many why not have more. The 20th c was horrible for people being forced to move in S Asia, Europe, Central Asia, and also from 'development' in many places.

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🔮 How do you picture Southasia hundreds of years from today? ✍ Send your story to [email protected] with the subject line ‘<Your Name> - Fiction Fest 2025’. Our deadline for submissions is 1 April. #FictionFest2025

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Are the optics of Musk holding court in the Oval Office while Trump sits quietly in the corner of the frame supposed to persuade us that Trump is in charge

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

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Imagine the minds that dedicate federal resources to get some staff person go through and update time stamps on old press releases! Sure, this is a regime dedicated to ending government waste. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

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I've never lived in a sports city quite like this before.

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Today’s books for #blackhistorymonth are Frank Yerby’s novels. He wrote 33 in all. He was the first Black author to option off the film rights to one of his novels with “The Foxes of Harrow.” Robert Bone called him “the prince of pulpsters” and Darwin Turner called him “the debunker of myths.” 1/

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As someone who once did data entry for an NIH funded research project, my paychecks came from a university. I was able to live for several years on that. I know that without indirects universities would sponsor projects. This is how it is. Something sick about a billionaire gutting this system.

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This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!

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“This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known." As a former IT database techie, I find what's happening terrifying. (Gift link to article) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

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While Trump's the Chief Bombast Officer, Musk is the Executive President. And here are the Musketeers who no one elected, who like Musk are an imperial demolition crew.

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I’m reminded of David Halberstam’s book “Best and the Brightest” about the Ivy Leaguers in government whose hubris brought us the Vietnam War debacle. Similar story now, only with 20 year olds in gym shorts instead of 50 year olds in suits, and who reek of Axe body spray rather than pipe smoke.

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Americans cry out for speed and efficiency! For too long, our authoritarianism has been “creeping.” Our oligarchy: “quasi.” Our Nazis: “neo.” But now, Americans will get what they want: a stripped-down, streamlined speed run of 1920s Germany meets Ex Machina.

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If the Orange Man crowns himself as Emperor, will he choose to claim himself as Emperor George Washington II or Emperor Andrew Jackson II or Emperor and Mount William McKinley II. Will he take the Musk as his Second Wife so apartheid man too can enjoy a throne?

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Saturday in NYC 🏳️‍⚧️

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All it took was an Orange Man, the Richest Boy-Man on Earth, and the Musketeers. And a supporting cast of allies and loyal opposition.

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Back in the 1960s, they often screened the movie 'The Ugly American' in Dacca, then in East Pakistan. I saw it a few times, read the book later. Maybe someone needs to make a new film The Ugliest Americans. Wait, there's already a reality show playing out day to day.

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Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal, now Gaza, can someone point the Emperor to the Falkland Islands? That war brought back the British Empire to such a high point why not repeat that for the glory of the American Empire?

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Congratulations to all of the #PENTranslates awardees, among them the WWB-ers Natasha Wimmer, Helen Stevenson, Ellen Elias-Bursać, Karim Kattan, @jmz.bsky.social, Sean Gasper Bye, Stefan Tobler, Krisztina Tóth, George Szirtes...🧵

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Currently researching #literarytranslation #mentorship programs anywhere in the world. If you run a literary translation mentorship, or are involved in one as mentor or mentee, I would be delighted to learn more about it from you.

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So now what? No Bigly Tariff wall against Canada and Mexico? I guess I'll have to cancel the plans to build a fully AMERICAN car factory in my backyard now. Damn, I was dreaming of doing a Ford Rouge plant all over again, rubber to tires, sand to glass, iron and coal to steel. 000's of jobs lost now

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